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I forget the word, but there is a Russian word that sums this up. It’s about saying things thst are over-the-top to accentuate reality. In the same way that Ste
by GW150914 8y ago
I forget the word, but there is a Russian word that sums this up. It’s about saying things thst are over-the-top to accentuate reality. In the same way that Stephen Colbert pretended to be a kind of hyper-Bill O’Reilly as a way of pointing out the ridiculousness and hypocrisy of some aspects of the Republicans in the US. It also applies to someone with a record of torturing and killing pets who is accused of murder, grinning and saying, “Everyone knows I would not hurt a fly.”
A couple of Russians saying that they found the wintry weather in the UK challenging? Well...
- vtail 8y agoThe Russian word you are looking for might be "фарс", very similar meaning to "farce".
- DenisM 8y agoProbably "Эпатаж". There is no good translation, not even for the wikipedia article itself. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B6 https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0...
- cuboidGoat 8y agoSounds similar in meaning to the Yiddish word 'chutzpah', which was once defined by Leo Rosten as; "that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan"